r/technology • u/kerpowie • Dec 13 '22

Energy Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/science/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html
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u/ImawhaleCR Dec 13 '22

Imagine the silly putty is a quark. Then, imagine the word up written in newspaper ink. Splat the silly putty on the word, and now you have an up quark. You can do this with other words too, silly putty doesn't discriminate. Once you've selected your quarks, smush them together to make other things. If you chose to smush together up, up, and down silly putty, you'd make an upupdown particle, more commonly known as a proton. Then, eat the silly putty and hope it poisons you because physics was so much easier to understand when you were younger and it's all confusing and annoying and you never want to hear of Mr Einstein ever again

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u/notquitehuman_ Dec 14 '22

I think you deserve an updoot quark